rust-lang/rust — pull request #20033 by alexcrichton (2014-12-19 17:09:22+00:00)
Title: serialize: Fully deprecate the library in-tree

This commit completes the deprecation story for the in-tree serialization
library. The compiler will now emit a warning whenever it encounters
`deriving(Encodable)` or `deriving(Decodable)`, and the library itself is now
marked `#[unstable]` for when feature staging is enabled.

All users of serialization can migrate to the `rustc-serialize` crate on
crates.io which provides the exact same interface as the libserialize library
in-tree. The new deriving modes are named `RustcEncodable` and `RustcDecodable`
and require `extern crate "rustc-serialize" as rustc_serialize` at the crate
root in order to expand correctly.

To migrate all crates, add the following to your `Cargo.toml`:

[dependencies]
rustc-serialize = "0.1.1"

And then add the following to your crate root:

extern crate "rustc-serialize" as rustc_serialize;

Finally, rename `Encodable` and `Decodable` deriving modes to `RustcEncodable`
and `RustcDecodable`.

[breaking-change]